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i heard mitch mcconnell and speaker banner say they don't want to shut down. no one wants a shutdown they said. not so. the tea party does want a shutdown. let me give you a couple of quotes. the government shutdown, that is i -- what i wanted to hear. the people in the audience applauded. you can get the tape. and, senator leahy said the government -- lee said a government shutdown was necessary. the list of tea party representatives who say they want to shut down his long but they can accomplish it on their own. they are aided and abetted by speaker banner. if speaker boehner is to say, you cannot have your way, the opens right back -- government opens right back. if he continues to aid the tea party, the government stays shut down. the real focus is not on the tea party. they want to shut down the government. the real focus is on speaker boehner. if he will finally resist the tea party, the government could open in about an hour. >> are you going to apologize? >> oh, to marlin, my sincere apologies if i have offended you. i don't know you but i don't want t
i heard mitch mcconnell and speaker banner say they don't want to shut down. no one wants a shutdown they said. not so. the tea party does want a shutdown. let me give you a couple of quotes. the government shutdown, that is i -- what i wanted to hear. the people in the audience applauded. you can get the tape. and, senator leahy said the government -- lee said a government shutdown was necessary. the list of tea party representatives who say they want to shut down his long but they can...
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even mitch mcconnell seemed he was like to move forward and individual republican senators said it was absurdity for the house republicans to be demanding house conferences and then they had the opportunity to do it and nothing is forth coming from the other side of the aisle. why is that the case? we have now figured it out. because you knew that the demand that you would make, because you are following a script from the junior senator from texas and others, would have been so extreme at a conference committee, that it would have been a futile legislative exercise, and you did not want that to be exposed to the american people. i think that's one of the only other conclusions we can draw at this moment with the benefit of behindsight with why in the world a conference committee was never appointed even though that is something you had been demanding, my good friends on the other side of the aisle, for the previous two years. and so the american people aren't going to be fooled by these 11th hour gimmicks. conference committee. what we need to do at this point is just pass a clean, con
even mitch mcconnell seemed he was like to move forward and individual republican senators said it was absurdity for the house republicans to be demanding house conferences and then they had the opportunity to do it and nothing is forth coming from the other side of the aisle. why is that the case? we have now figured it out. because you knew that the demand that you would make, because you are following a script from the junior senator from texas and others, would have been so extreme at a...
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john boehner hear mitch mcconnell and the other republicans say we don't want to default. but everybody knows, it is written about in all of the papers that their basic theory is, okay, if the shutdown doesn't work then we are going some extra con sentencings out of the president -- concessions out of the president. we will you the a long laundry list, all the things that we want that we can't get passed our own and if we don't get it, we will tell him we won't vote to pay the country's bills, we will let the country default. i'm not just making this up. is common knowledge. every report are here knows t -- every reporter here knows it. i want you understand the of this.nces as reckless as a government shutdown is, as many people are a governmenthe by shutdown, an economic shutdown wouldresults from default worse.matically in a government shutdown, social security checks still go out on time. in an economic shutdown if we don't raise the debt ceiling out on time.o in a government shutdown, disability benefits still arrive on time. in an economic shutdown, they don't. a gov
john boehner hear mitch mcconnell and the other republicans say we don't want to default. but everybody knows, it is written about in all of the papers that their basic theory is, okay, if the shutdown doesn't work then we are going some extra con sentencings out of the president -- concessions out of the president. we will you the a long laundry list, all the things that we want that we can't get passed our own and if we don't get it, we will tell him we won't vote to pay the country's bills,...
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but in the meantime, politico is reporting that senate republican leader mitch mcconnell is meeting with his party's conference to gauge whether there would be enough support to pass a one-week stopgap measure which would prevent the government from shutting down tonight. we'll have live coverage of the senate when they come in here on c span 2. and before they gavel in, we're going to take a look back at how they got to where they are with the bill. this is some of the debate from the floor of the house this weekend. it's about half an hour. >> mr. speaker, i rise to move forward with h.r. 59, the continuing resolution that will keep the doors of the government open after the end of the fiscal year on monday. it's unfortunate that yet again we are in this situation facing yet another shutdown showdown. with no solution to our many fiscal problems in sight. funding the government with a continuing resolution should not be plan a. plan b, even plan z. but our challenges are many. a timeline is short, so passing this cr today is absolutely essential. the house passed a version of this bill
but in the meantime, politico is reporting that senate republican leader mitch mcconnell is meeting with his party's conference to gauge whether there would be enough support to pass a one-week stopgap measure which would prevent the government from shutting down tonight. we'll have live coverage of the senate when they come in here on c span 2. and before they gavel in, we're going to take a look back at how they got to where they are with the bill. this is some of the debate from the floor of...
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mcconnell, kelley ayotte, jeff sessions and dick durbin among others. the next majority leader. >> myra marx the senate be a period of morning business for debate only until 2:00 p.m. today. during that time, senators will be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. mr. president, following -- suggestion and prayer at merle black, i want to take a few minutes to talk about senate decorum, senate procedure. this is constructive criticism for the entire senate and self-criticism for me. mr. president, i think we have all here in the senate kind of the aura of robert byrd, who was such a stickler for senate procedure. i think we have all let things get away from us a little bit. the senate is a very special place with very particular rules. these rules help to keep debate on centers that will come even discussing matters in which senators completely disagree. one of those rules concerning how we address each other here in the senate. the practice we observe is that when senator speak they address themselves only to presiding officer. mr. president, will
mcconnell, kelley ayotte, jeff sessions and dick durbin among others. the next majority leader. >> myra marx the senate be a period of morning business for debate only until 2:00 p.m. today. during that time, senators will be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. mr. president, following -- suggestion and prayer at merle black, i want to take a few minutes to talk about senate decorum, senate procedure. this is constructive criticism for the entire senate and self-criticism for me....